Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 3

One day, when the sky was clear and the sun was bright, he sat down by the cattle-fold.

Who acts: One day, sun, man · What happens: be, sit down

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, sun, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clear	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 clear	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clear	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clear	cop
8	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bright	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bright	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bright	cop
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clear	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clear	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	by	by	ADP	_	22 fold	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fold	det
20	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fold	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 cattle	punct
22	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	One day	the sky nsubj; clear property	tree rules
2	is	past	the sun	bright property	tree rules
3	sit down	past	man	by the cattle fold	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fold=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 3